Welcome. Thank you.
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Good morning.
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Great to see you here,
enthusiastically ready,
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to jump into another journey
in the Word of God, today.
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Amen.
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Let us invite the, the
presence and the blessing
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of God among us,
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and we're going to call on Grant
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to lead us in
prayer this morning.
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Thank you.
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Loving Father, we thank
You for bringing us together,
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once again, to open Your word
and to listen to Your voice.
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Thank You for the
promise that You said,
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where two or three
will gather together
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You will be among us and
I want to thank You, Father,
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that You have
fulfilled the promise
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during this weekend
because we have seen
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the sweetness of Your presence.
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The unity of the body, Father.
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The likeness of Jesus, and
as we relate to one another,
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Father, we ask
that You will continue
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to be present with us today,
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and bless us with a deeper
understanding of Your word,
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in Jesus' precious name, amen.
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Amen, amen, thank you very much.
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Who has taken hold this morning,
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with vigor,
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the atoning, the
benefits of the atoning death
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of Jesus Christ?
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Who has reminded
themselves, this morning,
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that in the sight of God,
you are declared righteous?
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Yeah. Amen.
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Because
incredibly, through His grace,
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God has embraced
Jesus in your place.
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Amen.
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So whatever happens to
Jesus has happened to you.
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You know, I meet people who
are trying to get to heaven,
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their whole life is spent
trying to make it to heaven.
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I'm not spending my
life trying to get to heaven.
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Amen.
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Because according to Ephesians,
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I am already
seated there, in Him.
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Amen.
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If Jesus is in heaven,
I, by faith, am in heaven.
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Amen.
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Getting there will just
be the cream on the cake.
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I'm there
already, and I'm privileged
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to be living according
to the heavenly principles
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while still on
earth, isn't that exciting?
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Yes. Exciting.
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I hope you're in
faith this morning.
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The atoning death of Jesus
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means that you
are reconciled to God.
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You're not a stranger,
you're not a foreigner,
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you're not
outside of his family,
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you are incorporated,
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you are adopted
into the family of God.
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Yes.
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Warts and all, you
have been embraced by God,
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who loves you unconditionally.
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He's so generous, He's
giving you the privileges
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a child of God to
begin with perfection,
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not to end with it.
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He's declaring you
to be perfect forever,
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through the
atoning death of Jesus.
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Imagine the
consequences of that.
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Wow, what a privilege that is.
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While you are undergoing
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the experience
of sanctification,
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while you're
growing up into Jesus,
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He's taken the
stress away from you
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of trying to become perfect.
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Amen.
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By declaring you to be
so, right at the beginning
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and for how long has He
given you that privilege?
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Forever.
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Think of that. Forever.
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I am perfect,
forever, in the sight of God.
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And people come up to me and
say I'm trying to be perfect,
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I say, well, I wish you luck.
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Let me know
when you reach there.
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I have it already
so that's a stress
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that's removed from me.
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I can actually enjoy the process
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of growing up into Jesus.
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Sometimes painful,
sometimes challenging,
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but an exciting
growth process in our lives.
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As God fulfills His
promise and we become like Him.
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Amen.
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You have redemption.
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Amen. Full and free.
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You've been purchased
back-- Your sins are forgiven.
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Amen.
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Your enemy has
been rendered powerless,
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you don't have to enter
into any debates with him.
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Amen.
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I was in New Zealand,
taking some seminars and I,
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the elder and his wife
of the church that I was in
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walked up to me and they said,
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Brother
Liversidge, we have a problem.
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I said, well,
join the human race.
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They said, but this
is a serious problem,
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it's our 21 year old son.
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He has become a devil priest
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and he has an altar
to Satan in his bedroom
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and we are not
permitted into the bedroom.
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I said, well,
whose house is this?
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Well, they said,
technically it's our house
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but we're
intimidated by this son of ours.
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Would you come and help
us? I said, well, I just might.
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Wednesday evening I'm free,
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I could come
round to your house.
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Oh, would you? I said, yes.
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So as they were
leaving, I said to the elder,
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by the way, uh, do
you have a sledge hammer?
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He says, why on earth
would I need a sledge hammer?
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I said, well, think about it
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between now and Wednesday night.
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And hopefully it
will do one on you
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by the time I
arrive at your house.
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I said, what time does
your son get home from work?
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He gets in at midnight.
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So I said, well, I can
be there about 8 o' clock.
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They said, great.
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So I went round to this house
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in a suburb of
Auckland, New Zealand
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and knocked on the
door and the elder came out
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greeting me and he hold--
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he's holding a
sledge hammer in one hand.
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And he grinned at me, he said,
and I know what to do with it,
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I said, oh, hallelujah.
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So we broke the lock
off the bedroom door,
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we went in and
we took the altar,
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and all of the magazines,
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and every bit of paraphernalia
associated with devil worship.
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And we took it out of that house
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and we burnt it in the backyard.
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Amen.
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I then took oil and
we anointed all the doors
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and windows of this house,
oil being the beautiful symbol
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of the Holy Spirit.
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And I said to this
couple, you're now living
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in the safest house
in the neighborhood.
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It was 10
o'clock and now I thought
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I need to go and
get my beauty sleep.
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They said, couldn't
you wait till midnight?
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I said no, and
God's impressing me
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that I had to leave so
that their faith could kick in,
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they couldn't do
this on my faith.
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So I left them,
they were shaking
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'cause their son's
coming home at midnight.
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The son came home,
put his key in the door,
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they hadn't gone to bed
yet, they were terrified
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of what was gonna happen.
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He put his key in the
door and he opened the door
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and put his foot on the doorstep
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and was met by
an invisible force.
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He could not
actually go into the house,
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'cause we know it was
an angel standing there,
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blocking the way.
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And he started shouting out,
he awakened the whole street,
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what have you
done to this house?
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I can't come in here.
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And he turned and
fled to a buddy's house
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to spend the night.
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The next morning he
called his parents and he said,
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can I come home and get
some clothes and things,
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and they called me very quickly,
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I said, oh, no,
he can't come home,
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he'll bring the
demon back into your house.
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Not until he's willing
for you to administer to him
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and cast out
that which is in him.
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Then he can come home.
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I left, I came back
to the United States.
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They told me the story later.
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A month later he
called them up and he said,
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okay, what is it
you want to do with me?
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They said, are you
willing? He said, I am willing.
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So their own faith
activated and they rebuked
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the demon that
was in their own son.
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I had the privilege of
baptizing this young man
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when I came back to New Zealand.
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Amen. Praise God.
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And I said to myself,
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we have nothing to
fear from the devil.
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He is a defeated foe. Amen.
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He's been rendered powerless.
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I hope you're
not arguing with him,
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listening to any
of his suggestions.
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Consign him to
where he needs to be.
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Get thee behind me
because you have nothing on me
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because I am a child of God.
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Romans 6:11, I
consider myself to be, what?
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Dead to sin and alive unto God.
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Not because I'm feeling
a little more holy today,
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but because Jesus Christ,
the son of the living God,
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died my death, and rose
again in my resurrection,
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from the dead.
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That's why by
faith this morning,
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I can consider
myself to be dead to sin.
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Got nothing to
do with how I feel.
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It has everything to
do with how Jesus felt,
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as a human being.
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How's your faith, this morning?
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Could God have
done any more for us?
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He's cleansed our conscience,
even forgiven us for our sins
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of ignorance of
which we have plenty.
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God has made
available to all his children,
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and this is only,
I've got 30, in my Bible
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I have a list of 30 benefits
of the atoning death of Jesus,
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all ours by faith,
as we look at the cross.
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If you're not in the daily
habit of coming to the cross,
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and contemplating the
atoning death of Jesus,
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and lifting up your
heart and just saying to God,
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thank You, thank You, thank You.
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I have all this,
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how can I possibly be lost,
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if God has given us so much.
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That's why I keep asking you,
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how's your faith, this morning?
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I hope and pray you've
got the habit established
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of coming to
the cross, everyday.
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So when it comes to victory,
the three steps to victory.
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Summarizing a whole weekend now.
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First step, is come through,
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loud and clear.
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Now give me more than one
word now, let's not perish.
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Do you want a mic--
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Sorry.
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Come daily to the
foot of the cross.
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You can see that you
got an astounding response
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from this, I know
exactly how you must feel.
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Look up and check if
God's on vacation today or not.
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No, He's not.
Oh, He's not, okay.
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So let's hear it again.
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Come daily to the cross. Amen.
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Wow, come daily to the cross.
I love the way Anne said that.
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Come daily to the cross,
I'll draw the cross there.
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And claim the benefits...
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of His atoning death.
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I want you,
quickly this morning,
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to turn to the
person sitting next to you
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and claim one of the benefits
of the atoning death of Jesus.
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And then they will in
turn claim one back to you,
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don't sit gazing
up into heaven now,
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turn to the person
or persons next to you
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and claim one of the benefits
of the atoning death of Jesus
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and give God glory.
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Come on, talk
to one another now.
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Amen.
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Okay, let's have
your attention, please.
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Listen
carefully, step number two,
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it's come through already,
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let's see how
effective I have been.
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Someone on this side now,
who's got step number two?
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We haven't developed it fully
yet but it came out yesterday
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and we're going to
develop it in a few minutes.
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Don't call out please.
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This side, a forest
of hands waving at me.
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All right, I'll come
back to the other side then,
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we'll see what's
happening over here.
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Rudy?
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The whole time that
you're growing up into Jesus,
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it's a whole life process.
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Your good news is
that, you are not condemned.
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Powerful, but it's still
a part of our first step.
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But it's a beautiful part it,
thank you for bringing that up.
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Yes, the whole time
you're growing up into Jesus
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you are not condemned.
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That's one of
the biggest blessings
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that God has given us.
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But the second step which we
did move into yesterday, Anne?
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We're glad you're
alive this morning, Anne,
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the whole room--
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Thank you, praise God for that.
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Put on the mind of
Jesus. Thank you very much.
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Put on the mind of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
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We have moved from
the death of Jesus,
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to the life of Jesus.
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And according to Paul, he says
that it's the mind of Jesus,
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you know, the Holy Spirit
doesn't come into our bodies,
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he comes into our minds,
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and we receive
the mind of Christ.
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And we act upon that and this
is how we become like Jesus.
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I hope you've experienced
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the privilege of
putting on the mind of Jesus.
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Amen.
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The ordinary events of your life
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will begin to
become extraordinary.
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Amen. I like that.
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Amen.
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I don't do well
with feeble audiences.
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When you put on
the mind of Jesus,
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the ordinary things in your
life will become extraordinary.
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Amen.
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I mean, the
simple, ordinary things,
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like the woman on the other
side of my post office counter.
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We're chatting away
one day and she discovers
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I've written a book,
she said, I want to read it.
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So I bring her down a book.
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Now it's embarrassing to me
because I go to a post office
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that get's very
long lines in it.
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And the moment I
walk into the post office,
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if she's on duty,
she puts up a sign,
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"Not Available"
and she waves me down.
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And I walk down,
sometimes in front of 50 people,
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and they're all
going, who's this guy?
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What's he got?
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How come he goes
straight up to the counter?
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And I lean over the
counter and she says,
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I want to discuss
the latest chapter.
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So for 5 minutes, I'm leaning
over the post office counter
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trying, you know, speaking
in my usual quiet little voice,
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you know?
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And we have this
discussion of the latest chapter
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and she praises
God, she's unashamed.
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All right, she
says, come in next week
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I'll have another
chapter ready by then.
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And I walk out and I can
hear all the people murmuring
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about me, you know.
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And this is just
an ordinary thing,
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to go to the post office
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and yet I'm having
this extraordinary ministry.
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She's not only
reading, she's hearing the word.
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And I say to God, I
want these experiences
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every day of my
life, every day of my life.
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Amen.
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And I've discovered the secret
is to put on the mind of Jesus.
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It's a dangerous thing
for me to get on an aeroplane,
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'cause if there's only
one sinner on that plane
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who's seeking the
kingdom of God you know exactly
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where they're going
to be seated, don't you?
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Time and time again,
God sits them next to me.
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And I turn to the
person and I say you're sitting
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on the safest
seat on the aeroplane.
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And they say, why?
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I say, because
you're sitting next to me.
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And they say, well,
what makes you so special?
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Well, I have a squadron
of angels flying with me.
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Amen.
00:18:41.93\00:18:43.14
And they say to
me, what do you do?
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And I have my answer ready.
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I say, I am in ministry,
and I especially minister
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to individuals that God
sits next to me on aeorplanes.
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And finally they say, who, me?
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I say, yes, I can't wait to hear
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why you are sitting next to me.
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I say, you don't
think you're sitting there
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by accident, do you?
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You're sitting there
because God has planned for us
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to be sitting together.
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And over and
over again people say,
00:19:17.95\00:19:19.70
you won't believe
how I missed a plane here
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and I missed another plane there
00:19:23.93\00:19:25.60
and they finally found a
seat for me on this flight,
00:19:25.63\00:19:28.39
there's only one seat left.
00:19:28.42\00:19:30.31
I said, I understand
fully, I expect nothing less.
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God has planned
this whole encounter,
00:19:33.84\00:19:37.02
so let's talk about the reasons
now why we're sitting together.
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And the most
beautiful opportunities develop,
00:19:41.36\00:19:45.05
just sitting on aeroplanes.
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'Cause I travel on planes like
most people travel in a car,
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you know.
00:19:49.93\00:19:50.97
So I need to
have special ministry.
00:19:51.00\00:19:53.06
Sometimes I look
up and say to God,
00:19:53.09\00:19:55.98
I'm a bit tired.
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I wouldn't mind
having a break today.
00:19:58.94\00:20:01.72
Keep the seat next to me
vacant, please, if you can.
00:20:01.75\00:20:05.77
And He will respect that,
occasionally He doesn't respect
00:20:05.80\00:20:08.70
and I know that
even in my tiredness
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I am to go ahead and to
minister, in His behalf.
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How's your faith this morning?
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We need extraordinary encounters
00:20:17.60\00:20:19.93
every day of our life.
00:20:19.96\00:20:21.77
Now you know, I
have a favorite author,
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some of you are
familiar with this author,
00:20:25.29\00:20:27.52
she's a 19th-century
writer, her name is Ellen White
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and she's a
very prolific author,
00:20:33.63\00:20:36.55
a Christian author, has
written many, many books,
00:20:36.58\00:20:41.58
articles and letters, but
some of the greatest wisdom
00:20:41.61\00:20:45.43
I've ever read
outside of the Bible,
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I have read in her writings
00:20:48.02\00:20:49.82
and so I'm sharing
this with you today,
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because she
wrote a little booklet,
00:20:51.60\00:20:54.01
like a hundred years ago
called, "Genuine Conversion."
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It's really a series of
articles, and in this article
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called, "Genuine Conversion,"
00:21:02.67\00:21:05.48
which was published
in a religious newspaper,
00:21:05.51\00:21:08.19
called, "The Review and
Herald," on July 7, 1904,
00:21:08.22\00:21:13.54
think of that, over
a hundred years ago,
00:21:13.57\00:21:16.52
she gave this
magnificent little statement,
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"the leaven of truth."
00:21:19.10\00:21:22.80
That's her way of describing
the Holy Spirit, the leaven.
00:21:22.83\00:21:26.98
"The leaven of
truth works secretly,
00:21:27.01\00:21:30.96
silently, steadily,
to transform the soul.
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The natural inclinations
are softened and subdued."
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And here's the part
that I loved so much,
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new...
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new thoughts,
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new feelings,
00:21:55.74\00:22:00.61
new motives are implanted.
00:22:00.64\00:22:07.96
When I first read that,
because I've read biblically,
00:22:07.99\00:22:10.55
so many times
about the new mind,
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or being born again,
00:22:14.47\00:22:16.95
or putting on the mind of Jesus,
00:22:16.98\00:22:20.03
or receiving the Holy Spirit.
00:22:20.06\00:22:21.95
All these things are
saying the same thing,
00:22:21.98\00:22:24.95
but here is a Christian author
with incredible discernment,
00:22:24.98\00:22:31.86
who comes out in
probably the most simple
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and beautiful manner
and basically explains
00:22:33.96\00:22:36.89
that when you
receive the Holy Spirit,
00:22:36.92\00:22:39.18
when you put on
the mind of Jesus,
00:22:39.21\00:22:41.50
when Christ comes into
you through the Holy Spirit,
00:22:41.53\00:22:46.25
you receive new thoughts,
00:22:46.28\00:22:50.40
new feelings,
00:22:50.43\00:22:54.06
new motives.
00:22:54.09\00:22:55.78
Amen.
00:22:55.81\00:22:57.08
You receive the
thoughts of Christ,
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you receive the
feelings of Jesus,
00:23:02.43\00:23:07.15
you receive his motives.
00:23:07.18\00:23:11.85
Amen.
00:23:11.88\00:23:13.22
And the most
life-changing things take place
00:23:13.25\00:23:20.56
the moment you put
on the mind of Christ.
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Now I was preaching a sermon,
and standing at the door,
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shaking hands
with the congregation
00:23:32.27\00:23:35.53
and a couple
walked out of church
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that I've known for like,
00:23:37.20\00:23:38.78
15 or 20 years,
in their late 40s.
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And the husband came out
and he shook hands with me
00:23:43.75\00:23:46.03
and was totally
normal and his wife came out
00:23:46.06\00:23:50.08
and she had a face like death.
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Now I've just been
preaching for an hour
00:23:53.84\00:23:55.60
on the righteousness
of Jesus, and this woman
00:23:55.63\00:23:58.06
whom I've known all these years,
00:23:58.09\00:24:00.01
walks out and she
says to me, I hate Him.
00:24:00.04\00:24:04.74
I said, well,
thank you very much
00:24:04.77\00:24:06.07
for sharing that with me,
00:24:06.10\00:24:07.25
it's actually made
my whole day complete.
00:24:07.28\00:24:10.74
What a fortunate fellow I am,
00:24:10.77\00:24:13.89
to be on the
receiving end of your bitterness
00:24:13.92\00:24:16.44
as you walk out of church.
00:24:16.47\00:24:18.56
You know, I have a
wicked sense of humor.
00:24:18.59\00:24:21.79
I said, by the way,
who's the, him, here?
00:24:21.82\00:24:24.74
Who do you hate?
I hope it's not Him.
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Oh, no, she said and she
turned and pointed towards
00:24:27.37\00:24:30.13
her husband, him, the snake.
00:24:30.16\00:24:37.51
She said, I hate him so
much I really wouldn't mind
00:24:37.54\00:24:40.01
getting rid of him.
00:24:40.04\00:24:42.84
Then she said to me,
would you join us for lunch?
00:24:42.87\00:24:48.01
The church was having a
potluck and there were tables
00:24:51.05\00:24:53.26
set up in a courtyard.
00:24:53.29\00:24:55.50
Join us for lunch.
00:24:55.53\00:24:58.00
I hate cutting a story
off in the middle, don't you?
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So make sure you're present
for the next thrilling episode,
00:25:01.52\00:25:05.38
'cause I'm gonna
pick this story up again
00:25:05.41\00:25:08.60
and, it may be
sooner than you think.
00:25:08.63\00:25:14.73
Let's bow our heads together.
00:25:14.76\00:25:16.95
Lou Anne, would you
close in prayer for us today,
00:25:16.98\00:25:19.25
thank you very much.
00:25:19.28\00:25:20.56
Let's bow our heads together.
00:25:20.59\00:25:23.81
Father, thank You so very much
00:25:23.84\00:25:26.29
for exhibiting
Your great love for us
00:25:26.32\00:25:28.67
through the death and
the life of Your dear son.
00:25:28.70\00:25:32.73
And Father, we are so
grateful that You offer us
00:25:32.76\00:25:36.01
these benefits, that
You've bestowed upon Your son.
00:25:36.04\00:25:40.51
May we access
them, minute by minute,
00:25:40.54\00:25:45.27
not just day by day,
that You can be glorified.
00:25:45.30\00:25:49.16
Thank You so much,
00:25:49.19\00:25:50.48
in Jesus' precious
and wonderful name, amen.
00:25:50.51\00:25:52.74
Amen. Amen.
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